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Chapter Sixty-One — Burdens He Inherited

Chapter Sixty-One — Burdens He InheritedLucian’s Pov.The road to the old estate always felt longer than it actually was.I'd made the trip enough times to know it by heart, every bend, every mile marker, and still something in my chest tightened the closer I got. The carriage rolled past the last stretch of farmland, and then the trees closed in, thicker and older than anywhere else on our family's holdings, until the estate itself appeared through the branches like it had been waiting there the whole time, patient and unbothered by how much of Fullcrest had grown up around it.We're here, my lord."The carriage rider’s voice pulled me out of my own head before I was ready to leave it. I hadn't realized how long I'd been staring out the window. I never liked this place and I'd stopped pretending otherwise years ago.It wasn't a decay. The grounds were kept immaculate, the stonework was still sound, every window intact. It was the dead silence. A wrong kind of silence, the sort th

Última actualización : 2026-09-30

Chapter Sixty-Two — Cat Got Your Tongue, Little Menace?

Chapter Sixty-Two — Cat Got Your Tongue, Little Menace? Zeus Pov.Lunch with Kelsey had been quiet for exactly four minutes before I decided I liked it this way. There was Marcus interrupting with reports, no rowan hovering by the door and most importantly no elders demanding my attention over some fabricated crisis. It was just Kelsey, sitting across from me, stabbing at her food like it had personally wronged her.This was the first time we met since her day with Lucian as it seemed like she had been avoiding me. So I decided that I wasn't going to give her any reaction she could but taunt her. She glanced up again and I smirked then she looked back down immediately.I took a slow sip of my drink and watched her try to ignore me over the rim of the cup. She lasted maybe thirty seconds. If I counted right. "How… how was your morning?" she asked, far too brightly for someone who clearly didn't care about the answer."Fine.""Did Marcus bother you today?""Not particularly.""Did

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Chapter Sixty-Three — Twelve Dead Wolves

Chapter Sixty-Three — Twelve Dead WolvesKelsey’s povI was at the verge of breaking when the knock came and the door swung open before Zeus permitted. Which I was a bit thankful for. I used that moment to catch my breath. A scout came with devastating news At that moment playful heat from lunch died the instant those words left the scout's mouth.I watched Zeus stand and watched every trace of the taunting man who'd leaned over me moments ago vanish, replaced by someone harder, colder, already moving. "Summon Marcus," he told the scout. "Gather the Council and prepare the meeting chamber. Now."The scout ran off before I could blink.I rose too, already alert and following behind, my mind racing through everything this meant. Twevle dead. That wasn't a rumor or a scare. That was grief walking through this palace within the hour.I made it three steps before Zeus turned."Stay here.""But Zeus—""I said stay!"The words landed like a slap, sharp enough that I actually flinched. He'

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Chapter Sixty-Four — The King’s Burden

Chapter Sixty-Four — The King’s BurdenZeus's POV "Twelve, Your Majesty."The number landed heavier than the first count had. Eight had been a wound. Twelve was something closer to a warning.I stood so fast. "Summon Marcus. Gather the Council and prepare a meeting chamber. Now."Kelsey rose too, already moving toward the door with me, and I turned before she'd taken three steps."Stay here.""Zeus—""I said stay!"The words came out sharper than I intended for, sharp enough that I saw her flinch, and something in my chest twisted immediately at the sight of it. I did not mean to speak to her like that. Not to her. Never to her. I crossed back, cupping her face in both hands before I could think better of it."I'm sorry," I said.She didn't answer as she was still too stunned.I pressed a kiss to her forehead, quick and unplanned, some instinct older than reason driving the gesture, then forced myself to turn and walk away before I could look at why I'd done it in the first place.-

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Chapter Sixty-Five — The Other Side of the Wall

Chapter Sixty-Five — The Other Side of the WallZeus's POV The messenger held out the letter like it might bite him.I took it, and saw a strange crest pressed into the wax that immediately soured my mood. This was not his family crest so this should be his personal one."You look offended already," Kelsey said."It's from Lucian.""Ah.""Exactly."She tried, and failed, to hide her smile.I broke the seal and read it, my expression shifting through several stages I didn't bother controlling. Suspicion first. Then confusion. Then something closer to focus."What?" Kelsey asked."Nothing.""Zeus.""It's nothing useful.""You're a terrible liar."I handed her the letter without further argument.She read it quickly, her brow furrowing.*Your Majesty,**Recent events have given me reason to believe there are matters that would benefit from direct conversation rather than continued assumptions. If you are willing, I would request a private meeting at a location of your choosing. I believ

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Chapter Sixty-Six — A Secret Nobody Understood

Chapter Sixty-Six — A Secret Nobody UnderstoodZeus's POVThe hunting estate stayed quiet under the grey afternoon sky. I arrived first. A handful of guards waited by the gate, and that was all. No Marcus or Kelsey. Whatever Lucian D'Averon wanted to say, he'd asked for two men and nothing more, and I'd decided to give him exactly that.He rode in alone not long after. Had no family escort trailing behind him or a noble entourage meant to make him look important. Just Lucian, on a plain horse, dressed like a man visiting a neighbor rather than an heir stepping into a meeting with the king.That told me something before he'd even dismounted. A man doesn't come alone to a private meeting with the King unless he's either supremely confident or genuinely out of better options. Either way, he'd walked out from behind his family's protection to sit across from me, and that meant something had changed enough to matter on his end."Your Majesty." He inclined his head down to the exact degree.

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Chapter Sixty-Seven — Secret Behind the Door

Chapter Sixty-Seven — Secret Behind the DoorLucian POV.The meeting was technically over but neither of us left. I'd said more than I planned to say when walking in, and Zeus had given me almost nothing in return, which told me plenty on its own.A servant came in, refilled our drinks without a word, and slipped back out quietly, the door clicking shut behind her. That small sound seemed to settle something in the room. We were alone now, properly alone, in a way that made whatever came next feel like it wouldn't leave these walls.Zeus set his glass down without drinking from it."Why are you protecting something you know nothing about?"That was a fair question. I'd asked myself the same thing more times than I could count, usually late at night or after another request landed on my desk that I'd bury without a second thought because that was simply what I did. It was duty."When I was younger," I said, "I asked a lot of questions about it. About the Collection Seventeen and the fa

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Chapter Sixty-Eight — Aurelia

Chapter Sixty-Eight — AureliaKelsey's point of view Zeus came back long after I'd stopped pretending I wasn't waiting up for him.I heard his boots in the corridor before I saw him, slower than usual, and when he finally walked into the small sitting room where me, Marcus and Varian had gathered, I knew immediately something had happened. He wasn't angry or frustrated the way he usually looked after a Council session. He looked like a man thinking about something over and over in his head, trying to find the side that made sense.That worried me more than anger would have."Well?" Marcus asked, before Zeus had even sat down.Zeus told us everything. Lucian's confession about his father stopping him from seeing the collection years ago. The fear in the man's face was more alarming than anger would have been. And the knowledge that other kings, going back through generations, had pursued the same answers only to abandon the search in silence, leaving no explanation behind."He doesn't

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Chapter Sixty-Nine — Memory without meaning

Chapter Sixty-Nine — Memory without meaning Kelsey’s POVI woke up before the sun rose, the name still sitting in my head and echoing through my thoughts.Aurelia.I lay there a long while, staring at the ceiling and testing whether the familiar feeling from last night had faded with sleep the way dreams usually do. But It hadn't. If anything, it felt sharper now, more insistent, like a splinter working its way closer to the surface instead of settling deeper.I thought about going to tell Varian first.He'd want to write it down and reduce it to data instead of dealing with what it actually felt like sitting in my ribs.I thought about Zeus too, and that thought stayed with me for only a second before I pushed it away, uncomfortable with how fast I'd dismissed it.I didn't want the name fixed into reports like one more data point in an investigation that had already swallowed every other part of my life.I wanted to know what it meant before anyone else decided what to do with that k

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Chapter Seventy — The First Sovereign

KELSEY’S POV I didn't move from the chair, even after the silence between us had stretched long enough that Lucian moved uncomfortably across the table."I'm not leaving until you tell me everything you actually know," I said. "Kelsey, I've already told you more than—""More than you meant to. I understand that but honestly don't care. This is my life we are talking about." I kept my voice steady, even though nothing inside me felt steady at all. "You said your family has fragments of her history. I need to know what's in them."He studied me a long moment, weighing something behind his eyes, before he finally sat back and let out a slow breath."The official history," he said, "the part every child in this kingdom is taught, claims Aurelia disappeared without an heir and her line ended with her, which is why the Crown had to search centuries later for any blood compatible enough to carry the royal bloodline forward again.""But.""But there are older accounts," he said. "Ones that

Última actualización : 2026-10-06

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